listening to a couple of little acts right now..Lana Davies www.myspace.com/lanatheoriginal its just here a guitar and a broken laptop making lovely raw love songs, with a beautiful voice (a bit on teh lofi side at the minute though)also Slowclub www.myspace.com/slowclub the happiest band in the whole wide world. Give them a go, she plays a chair!!!beyond that I think it will be the usual mix of Tom Waits and yann Tierson, puntucated by eek a mouse and the gallows at least until i get my pea-pod back and can listen to a morer variagated selection of music

Fiery Furnaces: Widow City:: a lot of fans and critics have panned this one, but it is my favorite... seriously disjointed folk-pop

Danielson: Ships:: now, I have a strong distaste for religion, but I can't stop listening to Danielson's Jesus influenced psych-folk... it makes it easier to accept since he doesn't really sing about those things directly... sounds more generally wholesome than strictly Christian. Still very weird at times.

Ween: la Cucaracha:: who doesn't love Ween?

Roky Erikson: You're Gonna Miss Me Soundtrack:: to balance out the religious pop, here's a guy that couldn't stop singing about the devil and went crazy, only to return from madness and sing about the devil some more.

Thus far I have been cycling through my collection of Lacuna Coil(Comalies, Halflife, In a Reverie and their self titled album), as well as picking up a pair of albums from the Dresden Dolls(Their self titled album as well as Yes Virginia). I'm especially fond of "Heaven's a Lie" and "Our Truth" by Lacuna coil and "My alcoholic friends", "Girl Anachronism" and "Coin-Operated Boy" by Dresden Dolls. Other than that, I've been listening to a fair bit of Flogging Molly (especially the song "Seven Deadly Sins") for kicks.

And I recall "Because We're Dead" by Slow Club fairly well, it's on my iPhone playlist as well...really catchy.

The album rotation looks to be as follows:Destroyer 666-Cold Steel For An Iron AgeNick Cave And The Bad Seeds-No More Shall We Part, along with some various other tunesDeceased-Pretty much every album, though I'm focusing on "As The Weird Travel On"Some Random shots of PJ HarveyI've also been jamming some MC-5 and Sir Lord Baltimoreit's very possible I'll hit up some Joy Division and The Black Keys as well

@val a lindsay ii thank god i'm not the only one who's having a hard time getting into momofuku. for an album i went to so much trouble for (bought it on vinyl, and don't even have a working record player), i'm sure not putting a lot of time into it.

i am probably going to go through an elvis costello phase, listened to mighty like a rose today, i continue to have stuff from brutal youth stuck in my head. might just listen to it all chronologically.